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2022 GMC Hummer EV: the biggest, baddest, butchest EV to hit the market?

Charged EVs

The news that General Motors would relaunch the infamous Hummer name—as an all-electric truck no less—broke a few days before the high-dollar, high-visibility 2020 Super Bowl ad that introduced that vehicle to the world. The name isn’t its own brand; the 2022 GMC Hummer EV will be sold as a model line within the GMC luxury truck brand.

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General Motors And Tengzhong Sign Definitive Agreement For Sale Of HUMMER

Green Car Congress

Ltd (Tengzhong) have entered into a definitive agreement that will allow Tengzhong to acquire GM’s HUMMER brand. Tengzhong intends to purchase HUMMER through an investment entity, in which it will hold an 80% stake. It will also assume the existing dealer agreements relating to HUMMER’s dealership network.

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Dongfeng Motor will utilize advanced humanoid robots to help build its vehicles in China

Baua Electric

Since the Chinese government supports Dongfeng’s products, we don’t hear much about them here in the States, but we have covered the OEM briefly in the past, including its Hummer EV knockoff that debuted in 2022. Dongfeng Liuzhou Motor Co., Dongfeng Liuzhou Motor Co.,

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Elio Motors begins work on Gen 5 prototype of $6,800, 84 MPG Vehicle

Green Car Congress

The 506 (c) offering is made possible by the Jobs Act of 2012, and allows accredited investors to buy in to Elio Motors. where General Motors previously built the Hummer H3 and Chevy Colorado. Elio Motors is targeting a launch date mid 2016 for a vehicle that will get up to 84 mpg (2.8-l/100

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Vaclav Smil: Cars weigh too much

Green Car Congress

Data on commuting from the US Census Bureau show that in 2012, 76% of Americans drove to work alone; carpooling was down from 20% in 1980 to 12%; and the use of public transportation was down from 6% to 5%. I regularly see a woman driving a Hummer 2 that easily weighs 50 times as much as she does. a Toyota Camry, 20; the F-150, 32.

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Nitrogen-doped graphene nanoplatelets offer high catalytic performance in fuel cells and solar cells; possible replacement for Pt

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However, the commonly used chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and/or Hummers’ methods for the production of carbon nanotubes and graphene are either too expensive for practical applications or involving environmentally hazardous reagents. 1116897109. Catalysts Fuel Cells Hydrogen Solar'

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GM Releases New Viability Plan, Launches Bond Exchange; Phasing Out Pontiac

Green Car Congress

As part of the new plan, GM will accelerate the wind-down or sale of HUMMER, Saturn and Saab to the end of 2009, and phase out Pontiac by the end of 2010. The revised plan moves up the resolution of Saab, Saturn, and Hummer to the end of 2009, at the latest.

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